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Going Google-Free: The Best Alternatives To Google Services On The Web

3:00AM January 18, 2012 | Whitson Gordon

Face it: Google runs your life. The search giant turned web ecosystem owns your email, calendar and even your voicemails. Your most important data lives on Google’s servers. What you may not realise is that, despite the quality of Google’s products, someone else is doing it better — and placing all your eggs in Google’s basket isn’t necessarily the best thing. Here’s a look at alternative services you can use in place of Google’s web apps. More »


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Bing Australia Dumps Beta Tag

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6:00AM November 15, 2011 | Angus Kidman

Microsoft’s search engine Bing launched in Australia back in June 2009. We still don’t have many of the features of the US version for Australian users, but Microsoft says the site’s results are now relevant enough to locals to justify removing the ‘beta’ tag from the site. More »


Communicate

Facebook Now Translates Posts And Comments

3:00AM October 8, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

Facebook has quietly launched a new feature that lets you translate posts and comments on Facebook pages with the click of a button. More »


Travel

Bing Reveals Detailed Interior Maps Of US Airports

11:30PM September 30, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

Finding your way around a new airport — at least major ones in the US — just got a little easier with the help of Bing search. The new airport maps show you the location of terminals, ticket counters, restrooms, eateries, ATMs and more. More »


Money

Bing Deals Finds Daily US Deals From Groupon, LivingSocial And More

2:35AM September 24, 2011 | Thorin Klosowski

Microsoft launched Bing Deals in the US today, a new shopping portal that posts daily deals from a variety of partners. More »


Work

Bing Mobile Web App Gets Real-Time, Location-Based Results

11:00PM March 23, 2011 | Davey Alba

Bing’s mobile web app just got an update for mobile devices that support HTML5 standards, which means iOS and Android. Aside from getting a glossy new UI, location-based search results, and the ability to find apps for the iPhone, Bing Mobile now spits out real-time data too. [Bing]


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Bing Visual Search Is Like Old Directory Listings On Yahoo!, But With Pictures

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2:00PM February 7, 2011 | Angus Kidman

A decade and a half ago, one of the big attractions of using a service like Yahoo! was its directory listings: relevant links sorted into categories. These days, efficient search sites mean no-one cares about that kind of thing so much, but Bing’s newly launched Visual Search still feels a bit like that, only with pictures and somehow less useful. More »


Design

Set Bing Backgrounds As An Automatically Updated Wallpaper

12:30AM September 1, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

Even if you don’t love Bing’s search, you probably appreciate its home page backgrounds. Now you can set those Bing images as your desktop wallpaper through an official theme and keep it updated automatically through an RSS feed. More »


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Bing Adds Australian Movie Times To Search

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9:48AM August 8, 2010 | Angus Kidman

Australian users have generally got a lousy deal with local search features on Microsoft’s Bing site, but it has added one useful feature this weekend: movie times when you search on a current movie name. The feature got off to a slightly rocky start on Saturday, but now seems to work pretty well, displaying details directly on the Bing site and without needing to add “movie times” as a keyword.


Travel

Bing Maps Now Includes Suna Traffic Information, Sort Of

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4:03PM May 13, 2010 | Angus Kidman

Many Bing services in Australia lag well behind the US site, but the local Maps implementation has just added a potentially useful feature: live traffic information from Suna for Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. More »